[CTRL] "Will" of the People
-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window Released sex offender hounded by police, TV January 18 2003 A convicted sex offender in the United States has been chased, punched, followed by police, filmed from television helicopters and harassed by protesters since his release from jail four months ago. David Siebers, 45, has been run out of Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, and has moved to several locations in New Mexico, state officials said. He left Toledo, Ohio, after the police bought him a bus ticket to Kentucky. In Albuquerque, Siebers has been followed by reporters and police. He stayed in different places outside the city for weeks, and moved to rural Las Nutrias last week after two people let him park his trailer on their land, 80 kilometres south of Albuquerque. Signs on the fence across the street say: "Keep Your Women/Children Away", "Molester Lives Here" and "Go back where you came from - Hell". Siebers, 45, served nine years in prison in Michigan, beginning in 1979, for armed robbery and rape. Months after his release he was caught trying to lure a 10-year-old girl into his car and was jailed for 10 years. After his release in September, investigators in Michigan told the press Siebers would hurt others. A prosecutor, William Forsyth, said an FBI profile showed he was still dangerous. The Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Martin Chavez, has told city police to monitor Siebers, even though he was outside their jurisdiction. "I'm not picking on him," Mr Chavez said. "He comes with this label 'will re-offend'. Not 'might,' but 'will'." Jack Furlong, a lawyer who has advised Siebers's family, said he asked Mr Forsyth to make public the FBI report but he refused. Mr Furlong said Mr Chavez was subjecting Siebers to a witch-hunt. "There is nothing more frustrating to a former offender than to be accused of future dangerousness without more information," he said. Associated Press This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/17/ 1042520777491.html A<:>E<:>R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Will of the People?
-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:11:34 -0500 "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >-Caveat Lector- >Will of the People? >by Thomas J. DiLorenzo >The state needs to invent an endless series of >myths about its powers and importance in order to >exist, and there is no bigger myth than the notion >that democratic governments are mere expressions >of "the will of the people." No matter how heinous >the deeds performed by democratic governments, >no matter how much property they steal or people >they kill at home and abroad, the basic institutions >of the state are almost never challenged because >they supposedly enjoy the support of "the will of >the people." The will of the people was last best expressed in 1776. You are correct about the rest of the 224 years since then. >This means that what little the average, rationally >ignorant citizen does know about government tends to >be mostly lies and statist propaganda. We only recognize what affects us directly. We have been placed in water and the heat has bee turned up incrementally. Most do not realize that the precious Constitution no longer applies. As long as the people, in general are fat, dumb and happy, they don't care. > What all of this means is that government at all levels devotes >enormous energy and resources to manufacturing the >will of the people, not merely responding to it. >Government has become the master, not the servant, of >the people, even under democracy. Unless we want to >live our lives as serfs, working for half the year or >longer to feed the voracious appetites of the tax >collectors, the powers of the state need to be scaled >back as much as is humanly possible. There is only one way to accomplish this: take the lesson the founding fathers taught us and repeat it till we get it right. They, too, found themselves living under a represive government which overtaxed them, was not in any way responsive to their needs or wishes, and used armed men to enforce the dictates handed down from on high. It may be happenstance that our new "leader" is George II, or it may be a"sign". > The free market is the only institution about which it can be said >that the will of the people is satisfied. That depends on what you mean by a "free market". A very big part of our problems stem from the power of Big Corporations and the wealthy 1%. If you mean that corporations and wealthy people should have free reign, I would agree only if all of the power is vested in the people, with state and federal governments having only very limited power in very narrow areas. I would much prefer doing away with capitalism entirely, and replacing it with a better way. However, that is entirely too long a dialogue to go into, and is mostly beside the point in this discussion. Suffice it to say that we have the knowledge, technology and resources to provide a good life for everyone IF we share things fairly. Jayson R. Jones http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Will of the People?
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Will of the People? by Thomas J. DiLorenzo The state needs to invent an endless series of myths about its powers and importance in order to exist, and there is no bigger myth than the notion that democratic governments are mere expressions of "the will of the people." No matter how heinous the deeds performed by democratic governments, no matter how much property they steal or people they kill at home and abroad, the basic institutions of the state are almost never challenged because they supposedly enjoy the support of "the will of the people." Market entrepreneurs are successful only if they cater to the will of the people, i.e., customers. But in politics exactly the opposite is true: Success in politics is determined by the extent to which political "entrepreneurs" can subvert the will of the people and operate without constraint. Nearly every act of every legislature is the result of "logrolling," a principal means of subverting the will of the people. For example, consider a hypothetical situation where there are only three voters in a community. Voter A prefers more government spending on schools, but nothing else. Voter B prefers more government spending on hospitals, but not on schools or anything else. Voter C is satisfied with the status quo. No proposal for spending more on either schools or hospitals can command a two-thirds majority, yet the usual outcome is more spending on both schools and hospitals by the simple expedient of logrolling. Voter A (or his representative) can simply say, "I don't want more hospital spending, but I'll vote for it if you, voter B, agree to vote for more school spending." The true will of the majority is no more spending on anything, yet the actual outcome is more spending on everything. Modern government is much too large for any citizen to possess knowledge about anything other than a miniscule percentage of its activities. Moreover, the average citizen is "rationally ignorant": he has little incentive to become informed about the activities of government, for he spends most of his time earning a living, educating himself, raising his family, etc. To make matters worse, the state, its media lapdogs, and its court intellectuals comprise a vast propaganda apparatus designed to confuse the voters about what the state is really up to (primarily legalized plunder and the form of mass murder called "war'). Every politician, and every bureaucrat, is a consummate propagandist. This means that what little the average, rationally ignorant citizen does know about government tends to be mostly lies and statist propaganda. We are told that welfare is needed to reduce poverty, yet as Charles Murray proved in Losing Ground, success against poverty was reversed in the U.S. at precisely the moment the government declared "war" on it and greatly increased welfare expenditures. We are told that farm subsidies are needed to "save the small family farm," yet the big majority of the subsidies go to large corporate enterprises. We have been told for more than a century that we are about to run out of energy, perhaps the most blatant of all Official Lies. There is barely a word of truth in all the government-funded environmental propaganda, from acid rain to the ozone layer, to global warming hysterics. The federal government annually announces that it is winning the war on drugs, a lie that no responsible adult could possibly believe. And then there are the government propaganda mills known as "public schools," which have brainwashed generations of children into becoming docile supporters of the state. What all of this means is that government at all levels devotes enormous energy and resources to manufacturing the will of the people, not merely responding to it. For more than a century, political "entrepreneurs" have also subverted the will of the people by creating thousands of "off-budget enterprises," as James Bennett and I showed in our book, Underground Government: The Off-Budget Public Sector. At the state and local levels of government, politicians frequently respond to citizen demands for budgetary restraint or debt limitation by paying lip service to "the will of the people" while simultaneously subverting that will with myriad off-the-books spending schemes. At the federal level, hundreds of billions of dollars in spending are hidden by the Federal Financing Bank, which places billions of dollars of spending off budget annually, and by the subsidized lending practices of various "government-sponsored enterprises." Congress has so rigged congressional elections that in the year 2000 fully 98 percent of all incumbents were reelected. It is almost impossible for a challenger to compete with incumbents who enjoy dozens of taxpayer-financed staff members who are really campaign workers; positions on congressional subcommittees that allow them to ladle out pork to their constituents; ta
